Putting a prototype Synthtech E950 through its paces, trying to get as unrecognizable as I can.

E950 BlatherBox RRich

opaltapes.com/album/sacred-horror-in-design

Developed from a commission by CTM Festival as an audio/visual project in collaboration with Tarik Barri, and inspired by their 2017 theme of ‘Fear Anger Love’ and its relationship to his childhood following the 1979 Iranian revolution, the record reveals a dramatic blend of acoustic Persian instrumentation and contemporary electronics. Sote aims to devise an idealised fusion of the musical heritage and tradition of Iran with the forward-thinking vision which has propelled his storied career producing techno, hardcore and computer music for labels like Warp, Ge-stell, Morphine and Repitch.

Now living in Tehran, his music has frequently grappled with the strict cultural restrictions imposed in his country over the past few decades, finding a space and setting to nurture new developments in experimental sound and performance; first documented on last year’s ‘Hardcore Sounds From Tehran’ on Opal Tapes.

Working with Arash Bolouri who plays the santour (Persian hammered dulcimer), and Behrouz Pashaei on the long-necked, four-string setar, Sote frames and responds to their traditional artistry. On occasions he directly manipulates the music emanating from their ancient instruments, cultivating and thickening up a surreal and beautiful tonality plucked from their strings with a series of processing techniques, but mostly each track is a peaceful arrangement and partnership, Sote electro-acoustically augmenting their movements within his own cybernetic framework. The resulting form gives the impression of semi-improvised gesture between three skilled partners, a deft call and response that uses digital techniques to extend the intentions of the performers into a modern, shady, but ultimately optimistic narrative; creating an paradoxical amalgam of the mythic and the profane as strong as any folk music.

Across the six tracks the strange strings tend to conduct the overall experience, tuned to the unusual colour and complex microtonality found in the classical music of Iran. Blurts of noise, sour tones, and a vaguely technoid or dubwise impression expose the inner rhythm and counterpoint embedded in this strummed music, building a new understanding and doorway into unfamiliar timbres and environmental patterns which govern us. At times it finds the artist at his most compositionally delicate and measured—listen to the sense of space afforded to a beautiful solo that drifts throughout “Boghze Esfahen” and then into “Plural”—and redoubles his focus on what new insight might be gained from the emotional, mathematical and polyrhythmic principles underpinning Persian music.

The electronic parts on final track “Holy Error” are sourced from Sote’s residency at EMS Stockholm in late 2016, utilising their remarkable in-house modular Serge system and divesting from conventional Iranian tonal motifs for a spikier duel with the instruments.

Synthesis: FM 
Dastgah: Nava & Chahargah 
Instruments: Santour, Setar & Kamancheh (by Kian Farahani)

Plebeian

Written, recorded and produced by Emah Fox
Mastered by Becki Whitton

You Got No Right (Single)

You Got No Right

Even My Dignity

On November 18, 1978, 909 members of the Peoples Temple living in the Jonestown settlement in Guyana consumed a deadly, cyanide-laced drink. They did so on the orders of the cult's leader, Jim Jones.

The massacre was the largest loss of U.S. civilian life in a single, deliberate act until 9/11.

Jonestown

Zajon gehört mit seinen 22 Jahren zu den jungen Talenten aus der Aachener Region, der nicht nur DJ sondern auch Producer ist.

Die wichtigen Clubs der Region hate er bereits seit langem bespielt und ist zudem Resident von "Aachen Calling"

Seine neue EP wird Ende des Jahres auf GRYPHON erscheinen. Auf der EP wird u.a. der Track "Drumcode's Mann" im Vinicius Honorio Remix enthalten sein.

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/zajon_official
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dzajon/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zajonmusic/

Zajon (088)

Golden Hour

A Complete Mockery (First Cut)

Mr. DECK - Lets Throw It Up

L’association Fraktal Beats et les membres de son collectif artistique présentent A Fractal Odyssey : un voyage, une odyssée électronique. Cette compilation de huit titres joint différents genres de musiques : Dub, Bass House, D&B, Glitch, Progressive, Hi-tech. Lors d’une exploration culturelle, partez à la découverte des divers horizons de la musique électronique.

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Full Release : 13/01/2020
>>> soundcloud.com/fraktal-beats/sets/a-fractal-odyssey-compilation

01 ► BAB ALWEST - Nebula Motel ■ Ethno-Trance ■
02 ► HPNZ - Burn ■ Bass House ■
03 ► MINDBLAST - Koika ■ Psybass ■
04 ► DZETLA - Fumer Tue ■ Electro ■
05 ► BANDIKOOT - Leviathan ■ Dub / D&B ■
06 ► ABSORO - Without Square ■ D&B ■
07 ► CHILL UM - Brain Capacity ■ Progressive Trance ■
08 ► MYSTICAL EYE - Nazi Poulpe Fuck Off ■ Hi-Tech ■

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► Soundcloud : @fraktal-beats
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► E-mail : fraktal.beats@gmail.com

Mastering : X’lair Mastering - Maxime Gonzalez - L-Xir
Artwork by Juliette Dravigney Monteuse Vidéo

A Complete Mockery (First Cut)

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